SITStah’s…Stop here first!

***There’s been a little confusion and I just want to point out that I’m only the featured blogger today…I am NOT the designer that will redesign your blog (and everyone lets out a big sigh of relief after noticing the mess that my blog is). Mariah from Jula Studio is the designer that you could potentially win a new blog design from! (Congratulations, Cheryl, on winning the blog design!) Again, I repeat it is definitely NOT ME as I have no idea what I’m doing and would love a blog redesign of my own. Best of luck to you all!***

Oh my goodness! I can’t even believe this! How about I thought that my SITS day was TOMORROW the 15th and it’s not and I didn’t even put up my post or anything! TODAY is actually my SITS day! And I’m a little, um, unprepared. I don’t know what day it is! I can’t believe it…I feel so stupid!So give me some time to set up my post…Christmas Jammie fun is on it’s way I promise.
(It’s here now!)

I managed to slap this post up real quick before realizing that the baby had just pooped…seriously. On top of that she’s totally attached to me today and won’t give me a moment to, well, do what I’m doing now. For TOMORROW I had a babysitter lined up so that I could spend all day long exchanging witty comments with other clever bloggers. I used to be totally on top of things and then I had a baby and my brain fell out of my ear and never came back. Oh, planning and preparation my frenemy. How you mock me so.

Here’s the deal…I want to blog about making family life fun, traditions, holidays, birthdays, making things special…whatever you want to call it (oh, I’m too frazzled to be eloquent right now). But the truth is that a good bit of the time I blog about my life as a mama and all that jazz. I like to think that I’m funny, but that’s open for debate.

So, here we are…my blog. I’m far from perfect and today it’s really showing. Welcome to motherhood. It smells like poop. And sunshine…don’t forget about the sunshine.

P.S. If you’ve made it all the way to the bottom of this post you are a patient person, and I thank you. I shall give you a virtual hug and then we shall sway and sing. I’m going to be interested in having some guest bloggers soon. If you’d be interested in putting a family-friendly post on my blog please email me at coolfamilyblog (at) yahoo (dot) com and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can! Thanks a bunch 🙂

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About Jenn Rian

Jenn is a bored and sarcastic divorced mom of two who blogs and vlogs because the voices in her head tell her to. She blogs about as often as she showers, which isn't very often.
Author of jennrian.com and funanddysfunction.com (coolestfamilyontheblock.com)

It’s all good Jenn! You have a beautiful family … and a beautiful blog. I’ll try to stop by later to check out your post when it is up. In the mean time. Merry SITSmas!! You are gonna need a little de-stress time after you get your post up!! =)

I was definitely too flustered yesterday to be fake at all 😉
Hopefully everyone enjoyed the realness although for about the first hour there I wanted to go outside and shove my head in the snow!
Replying to all of the comments wasn’t so bad…but trying to visit everyone’s blog today is killing me! Still I think it’s courteous to check them out since they took the time to visit me 🙂
Thanks for stopping by again!

Merry SITSmas!! No worries about being unprepared…I have four kids and no time for anything…and my baby always does a big old poop when I’m running late and need to leave RIGHT NOW!!
We too wear our Christmas jammies all month!!

Thanks Elizabeth! The jammies post is up now, finally 🙂 My daughter is only 16m so I’m still able to get her Christmas-themed sleepers…but I didn’t think about their not being as many options for toddlers 😦 Now I’m worried! We actually do jammies for my extended family the youngest of whom (excluding my 16mo daughter and 6mo nephew) is 18 years old!

Let me tell ya, I’m SO GLAD that you and others can find the humor in this. Unfortunately I can’t quite find it funny yet since I think I might have a nervous breakdown. By next week maybe I’ll chuckle a little 😉
Still, I’m glad that it’s humor-fodder for everyone else. Laugh it up, people!

haha! Kristy, it’s been a crazy time of 16+ months! Can’t say that I’ve adjusted to motherhood seamlessly…but I love that little girl more than anything! I can’t believe I was off by an entire day. Ug.

Thanks, Tammy! I would love to stop by your blog as soon as the craziness dies down over here (which could be tough considering I basically LIVE in crazy;) ). I think I’ll leave the coffee…I’m a little hyper enough as it is, but I’ll bring some hot cocoa for sure!

Yay, Bella! Thanks so much, you just made my day! I thought I was scaring everyone away with all the procrastination and the crazy! I’ll stop by your blog this weekend to say hi after I’ve had a nice long rest in a dark (perhaps padded) room.

Hi Margaret! I never considered that it might only be a U.S. thing, but I suppose that’s possible. We’ve had the PJs tradition since I was a little girl and when I started looking on the internet I noticed that many people had the same tradition. It’s definitely fun and we’ll see how the sweater contest goes after Christmas…this is our first year trying it out!
Thanks for stopping by!

Thanks, Jade! It’s nice to know I’m not the only one that could totally mix up an important blog-day like this! I’m glad that you like the background. I just changed themes last week and then uploaded the background from http://www.freechristmaswallpapers.net

I’m glad that you like the ideas and my blog 🙂 I stopped by your blog real quick and I have to say…yum! I almost licked the screen 😉 I’ll stop back when things are little less hectic around here. Thanks for stopping by and commenting!

My mom did this with us as kids and we’ve kept it going! In 2000 I started buying the pjs instead of mom because I was working in a lingerie department at the time and I’ve kept it up ever since! My cousins (23 and 18) still love this tradition as well. We all have such fun together! Thanks for visiting me today.

Thanks, Nicole! I love when traditions get passed down through the generations like that and the pajamas are perfect for it! I LOVE Gramommy, btw, so cute! My mom is “Mom-Mom” sometimes, my daughter is still learning to talk.

I do love being the center of attention, but I sure wish I had been better prepared!

Thanks, Ashley! Visit often 🙂
I think I’ll definitely celebrate tomorrow as well, although I might be in here all alone once the traffic from the giveaway dies down 😦 Oh well, what can I do?!
Thanks for visiting today!

AHHH I just skimmed to the bottom so I could leave a comment cause I’m in a bit of a rush at the moment but man this is definitely not the blog to skimp… I will be back later to read all these great sounding posts. I love the idea of starting new traditions. Love the Christmas background by the way. I heart Snowflakes. 🙂 Happy SITS day!

Thank you zeemaid. This post should definitely be shorter. Unfortunately I’m long-winded (I think it might be some kind of disease.) and when I’m flustered I tend to ramble. Not a good way to present myself to everyone…but there it is. I’d love it if you stopped back when you have the time and look around a bit!
You can get the snowflake background at http://www.freechristmaswallpapers.net if you want it for your wallpaper or anything.

HEy! Oh I am so relived about the designer thing (JOKES)
Love the idea for your blog; kinda why i started mine too, a coupla years back. Happy SiTS day and all that and if you like you are welcome to come by and link up your Christmas posts on my Christmas Post linky 🙂
(way to spread the word)
xxxhttp://www.greatfun4kidsblog.com/2010/12/link-up-your-christmas-posts.html

haha, Simone! You definitely don’t want me to design your blog since I don’t know CSS from a hole in the ground 😉
I can’t wait to go check out your blog…looks like we might be bloggy buddies. I’ll definitely stop by and link up. Thank you so much for stopping by and commenting!

Viviene, thanks so much for stopping by! AND thank you for the blog award too! As you can see I’ve been a little busy preparing for today (well, actually I was preparing for tomorrow…oops), and I haven’t had a chance to pick which bloggers that I want to pass the award onto yet. When things calm down around here I’ll get to it.

Thanks, Regina, Merry SITmas to you too! I’m definitely digging all of the bloggy love. Tomorrow will be a sad and lonely day when all of the traffic slows down 😦 Nice to meet you too…thanks for stopping by!

First off a very Merry SITSmas to you! Cute blog, like the part about having a baby and your brain falling out of your ear. We stopped having kids specifically after two in fear that I would have NO brains left, if we had more!

Thanks, Feisty! I was so hoping my brain would grow back with time, but alas, I think I’ve only grown more clueless. It’s a good thing these kids are so worth it! I’m thinking a small family may be in order for us as well or the kids will take over as I won’t be smart enough for their trickery.

Thanks, Rebecca! I LOVE genealogy! I’d love to get into it some day, but as you can see…my plate is full and I wouldn’t even know where to begin. But I’m definitely passionate about having those little things that my kids can depend on and carry on through generations! Thanks for stopping by 🙂

First off – HUGE congrats on being SITStah of the day! That has to be such an awesome feeling and I hope you made it to 700 or even far surpassed it! (I am a numbers junkie too, oddly so some days…)
Secondly – your correction about the blog design at the top of this post had me absolutely rolling with laughter. something about it just struck me as so hysterical! I do wish you luck in the contest though!
Thirdly – love the concept of your blog (the family traditions), and cannot wait to come back and read more when I am not in the process of procrastinating about two weeks worth of stuff that HAS to be done by Friday!
Followed you on twitter – will be off to check out your other fun links!

Once the anxiety and stress of having my days mixed up went it away…yeah, then it was a good feeling!
I only made it to 674 today…but it’s nothing to sneeze at. I can’t get too crazy over my daily numbers as it’s usually like, “oh, hey…I’m at 20 today. Again.”
I’m so glad that you found that funny. When I realized that some people had gotten it a little mixed up I felt so bad! I wondered how many people wandered in here, glanced around and said, “She seriously wants to design my blog?! Um, no thanks.” And walked back out again. Oopsie!
I would totally love to have you back anytime, Terra! We can procrastinate together…as you can see it’s one of my strong suits 😉

Following you back and will stop by your blog this weekend once the crazy settles down ’round here! Thanks so much for your comment!

Awww, thank you so much 🙂 My daughter’s only 16 months right now…so she thinks I’m the most fun person in the world. We’ll see what she thinks when she gets older and I start telling her “no” more often 😉 !
I definitely want to make her childhood great! It makes me so sad when kids don’t want to be at home with their families. I think we can certainly find ways to discipline our kids and give them good values and morals and still be weird and silly and have fun and encourage creativity and imagination. I believe it’s a foundation like that that keeps kids coming back home for fun and inviting their friends over. At least that’s what I’m hoping…but only time will tell!

Happy SITS Day! I’m about to be a new follower! You ’10 Days of Christmas PJ’s” idea reminded of The Boy Child’s first Christmas… he was born in October and it seemed no one could resist all the cute baby Christmas outfits. He truly had a new outfit for all 12 Days of Christmas!

I “hear” you on the funny thing… I think I’m funny sometimes, but I never sure if everyone else agrees!

PS I’m looking for guest posters about holiday traditions in the next two weeks. If you are interested, email me before this weekend! 🙂

Yay! I’m so glad that you stopped by!
Last year was my daughter’s first Christmas and we had so many different Christmas outfits that we never had enough days to wear them (we got a lot of snow that kept up from church a few weeks, boo!)…so one day I just dressed her up and took a bunch of pictures!
People keep telling me I’m funny…I’ve always thought so…but it almost seems so conceited to say, “By the way I’m hilarious and you should totally laugh at everything I say/write.”. I try to take the more humble approach just in case someone finds me more obnoxious than funny 😉

I’ll definitely need to contact you this weekend. Today I’m still coming down from my major freak-out and plus I’d like to visit the blogs of all you great ladies that stopped by! We’ll be in touch.

Thanks, Mrs.! It’s actually a credit to my aunt since every time we’re together she says,”I keep telling you we’re the coolest family on the block” and I thought it sounded like a great title 🙂 It’s so true, though, my family’s pretty freaking sweet 😉

Oh my goodness, you only started blogging in AUGUST? You look like you caught on well and fast! Contrats to you on your SITS day and good for you for keeping this post real. Hope you have a very happy SITSmas! Can’t wait to check out your whole site.

Mimi, that is the best compliment! I always feel like a mess around here…so it’s nice to know some people think I’ve caught on well!
haha, I was way too frazzled to even try to fake it. Real was all I had, for better or worse 😉
Thanks for stopping by…hope you stick around!

Oh, thank you! I love being called sassy 😉
Yay! Another double-nn Jenn!
I’ve always said, “2 “n’s” means more of Jenn!” and really, who wouldn’t want more of Jenn?!
Maybe we should start an exclusive club for sassy double-nn’ed Jenn’s!
Thanks for visiting!

Isn’t it awesome with all the comments!? I just saw 134 of them! I also see you made a fast recovery …good job, Jenn.
I want to thank you for mentioning me in the Goose girls and my books..very thoughtful! Merry Christmas…breathe deep and relax.

Thanks for being so honest and real! That’s what I love about most of the blogs I follow…they’re not perfect…they’re human. We all get a bit mixed up in life sometimes especially with little ones. Thanks for mentioning me in the tribe. I will be reading the post about pajamas. Have a wonderful day!